For its current missions the U.S. National Science Foundation charters
private research ships such as the Nathaniel B. Palmer, which can crunch through three feet of ice at three nautical miles per hour.
A pair of old fishing buddies is now steering the
ship at the Scripps
Research Institute, one of the world's largest private basic biomedical research ins
Research Institute, one of the world's largest
private basic biomedical
research ins
research institutes.